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  • His mother and Doctor Papineau turned out the lights and all was quiet and then a succession of images came forward, resurrected by some crow-eyed part of his mind that would neither wake nor sleep.†   (source)
  • We'll resurrect him.†   (source)
  • Passing through Resurrection Gate, he turned his back on the lilacs of the Alexander Gardens and proceeded toward Theatre Square, where the Hotel Metropol stood in all its glory.†   (source)
  • Lale runs his hands over the suits and shirts in the closet, both casual and formal, and all the accessories needed to resurrect the Lale of old.†   (source)
  • But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected.†   (source)
  • You don't care what I do, as long as you can still go and resurrect your high-flying career.†   (source)
  • The pre-Christian God Mithras—called the Son of God and the Light of the World—was born on December 25, died, was buried in a rock tomb, and then resurrected in three days.†   (source)
  • But tonight, the Gladers ate like dead men resurrected for one last meal before being sent to live with the devil.†   (source)
  • It had a strangely skeletal look about it, as though it were a resurrected wreck, and the dim, misty lights shimmering at its portholes looked like ghostly eyes.†   (source)
  • There was a paramilitary group in Guatemala, some resurrection of the terrorizing forces of the eighties, and they had been attacking villages and taking women captive.†   (source)
  • He gave me a long look and a slow smile, then said, "I notice he waited till we busted our butts finishing up planting before staging this resurrection."†   (source)
  • " Tor as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead,' " my father said.†   (source)
  • Could it be, I wondered, that these children died every evening only to be resurrected by the loop, like some Sisyphean suicide cult, condemned to be blown up and stitched back together for eternity?†   (source)
  • To atone for my ignorance, and to repay her father and her house for their great contributions to the kingdom, I would like to take this moment to announce the joining of House Calore and the resurrected House Titanos.†   (source)
  • He passes the turnoff to CryoJeenyus, one of the smaller outfits: he'd like to have been a fly on the wall when the lights went out and two thousand frozen millionaires' heads awaiting resurrection began to melt in the dark.†   (source)
  • "You're a really good poet, Ruth," she imagined me saying, and her journal would release her into a daydream of being such a good poet that her words had the power to resurrect me.†   (source)
  • And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture—must be resurrected from the ruins and examined.†   (source)
  • It seemed very easy for Maxon to give me things—to resurrect a holiday for my sake, to make sure I had the best of everything—because he had the entire world at his disposal.†   (source)
  • PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: And your response to disappearing Hugo and Rose Granger-Weasley was to go back in time again and this time, instead of losing two people you lost a huge number of people and killed your father and in doing so you resurrected the worst wizard the world has ever known and heralded in a new age of Dark Magic.†   (source)
  • The media had resurrected my first name, which I'd hated since grade school, stifled at the start of every school year when the teacher called roll: "It's Nick, I go by Nick!"†   (source)
  • Riders were forbidden to try to resurrect the dead, for their own safety.†   (source)
  • I visited the Resurrection Cemetery, passing through the large, ornate gates, and parked.†   (source)
  • Honey, you asked me what Jesus accomplished on the cross; so now listen to me carefully: through his death and resurrection, I am now fully reconciled to the world.†   (source)
  • But the damage he did came undone with the miraculous resurrection of Beloved.†   (source)
  • It was easier for the cruciform to resurrect his corpse than to tolerate such pain over a long period.†   (source)
  • And on the third day He rose again ....On my third day at Mama's, instead of a resurrection, I got another crucifixion.†   (source)
  • I'm new at this; you're resurrecting the human in me, and everything feels stronger because it's fresh.†   (source)
  • His return is like a resurrection.†   (source)
  • At the moment he's entirely unguarded and free, reveling in his own resurrection.†   (source)
  • Sonja and I thought it was interesting that when Colton said, "This one's right," he hadn't known the portrait, called Prince of Peace: The Resurrection, was painted by another child—a child who had also claimed to visit heaven.†   (source)
  • The warmth and welcome resurrected her good spirits.†   (source)
  • Condor resurrected the cane and gave it to Abe, who passed it to a contact who met regularly with Atto.†   (source)
  • Besides— It would be awesome if we just, like, resurrected as soon as we were killed, so we could keep fighting, and— Nico, this is serious.†   (source)
  • We could say that the Christian Church was founded on Easter Morning with the rumors of the resurrection of Jesus.†   (source)
  • For though Lestat was now miles away from us, he had in his resurrection awakened in me a tangle of complex fears which I could not escape.†   (source)
  • But not in the physical, bodily resurrection of Jesus.†   (source)
  • The spades and the pick chattered coldly one against the other, and Mrs. Ramage thought they would have given anyone who had seen them a proper fright — they must look like a pair of Mr. Dickens's resurrection men ....or perhaps one resurrection man sitting in a pony-trap driven by a ghost.†   (source)
  • Marcos's heroic resurrection made everyone forget about his barrel-organ phase.†   (source)
  • But he is still working only a short day, and I'm guessing that the chaos after Martin's death and Harriet's resurrection is taking its toll on his strength.†   (source)
  • The air was clear and smelled like the new white linen of the Resurrection.†   (source)
  • RESURRECTED†   (source)
  • "He is immortal," he said, "and he himself revealed the formula of his resurrection."†   (source)
  • Ang Dorje stood in the middle with his knees quaking as he tried to resurrect the bit of formal learning he had for this oral exam.†   (source)
  • As far as I knew, she liked her resurrected rose-garden fence just fine.†   (source)
  • First you inspect me
    Then you dissect me
    Then you reject me
    I wait for the day
    That you'll resurrect me
    "ANIMATE"
    COLLATERAL DAMAGE, TRACK 1†   (source)
  • "How do you plan to spend your resurrection?" he said, as though asking about a long weekend coming up.†   (source)
  • Miss Foley, the carnival again, the carousel run wild, the ancient Cooger mummy gasping moonlight, exhaling silver dust, dead, then resurrected in a chair where green lightning struck his skeleton alight, all of it a storm minus rain, minus thunder, and parade, the cigar store basement, the hiding, and at last them here, finished, done with the telling.†   (source)
  • It's not exactly a resurrection if I was never dead, is it?†   (source)
  • It was too far for Grace to walk with her taped-up leg and resurrected cane, so she went with Joe in the Chevy, ferrying the food and drink.†   (source)
  • You may do so sans objection Till the day of resurrection' for Bless my beard they aye shall be My beloved Trinity.†   (source)
  • Such an important holiday as a Christian—it's about the Resurrection—and here he was taking lives.†   (source)
  • The ghost town is alive and kicking like Ezekiel's resurrected valley of bones, the foot bones connected to the ankle bones, the ankle bones connected to the leg bones, and all them bones, them bones, jitterbugging in the Odd Fellows Hall, skating in the rinks, hiking and running up and down the mountainsides and the streets and paths of Slocan.†   (source)
  • Her mother had died—neighbors said she had cried constantly after Meena disappeared, then had gone mad—but her father was stunned and thrilled to see his daughter resurrected.†   (source)
  • But now, whatever she was—dead, undead, bizarrely resurrected—she was different.†   (source)
  • She awoke to a sensation of rising from underwater to be resurrected and reclaimed.†   (source)
  • Bonnie had resurrected her "old self"; as if serving up a preview of the normality, the regained vigor, soon to be, she had rouged her lips, fussed with her hair, and, wearing a new dress, accompanied him to the Holcomb School, where they applauded a student production of Tom Sawyer, in which Nancy played Becky Thatcher.†   (source)
  • The other reason I made the cut is this: you just know that the resurrection pill has got to work.†   (source)
  • But she loved the fine light of the prairie mornings; it had resurrected her spirits time after time through the years, when it seemed that dirt and cold and death would crush her.†   (source)
  • You resurrected a monster that will only kill to feed again.†   (source)
  • He tried to remember all the soldiers, and he resurrected images of all the elderly people he had known when a child — all the aunts, uncles, neighbors, parents and grandparents, his own and everyone else's, and all the pathetic, deluded shopkeepers who opened their small, dusty stores at dawn and worked in them foolishly until midnight.†   (source)
  • And okay, so maybe he's brought something dead back to life, but if he was the Messiah he would have resurrected everyone.†   (source)
  • And I have deserved peace the day I was born, the day I die, and the day I am resurrected.†   (source)
  • My skin tingles with the chill of resurrecting each detail of the murder.†   (source)
  • Then your redemption did not come through his resurrection, but through your belief in a greater purpose.†   (source)
  • Rather, he preached a sermon on the Resurrection.†   (source)
  • If your duties prevent you from joining scheduled classes, we'll just have to find you some tutors.... Only Miss Boon could delve right into academic schedules and curricula while everyone else was fretting about demonic ships and resurrected sorcerers.†   (source)
  • Watching the performers, who spent most of their time practicing on simulators, coax notes and chords out of the relics was like witnessing a resurrection.†   (source)
  • They claimed, however, that Black English, for which they resurrected the old term Ebonics, was not a dialect of English but a separate language.†   (source)
  • I didn't have no words thought out, you know, so I jest commenced sayin' thangs I been a-thinkin' on lately — bout the Virgin Birth and Resurrection and all like thet.†   (source)
  • A seed which has continued to put forth its fruit in its season as surely as if the great creator had been resurrected.†   (source)
  • But it shall be resurrected with stone and brick and mortar, and it promises to be a magnificent tower—tall and wide and imposing—once it is complete.†   (source)
  • A resurrection from the dead!†   (source)
  • Was it a resurrection of Hong Kong and Macao?†   (source)
  • I wasn't entirely sure of what his deal was, but he cared enough to help bring about the resurrection of a society headed for ruin.†   (source)
  • The new version of himself had been resurrected yesterday as he endured the psychiatric evaluation.†   (source)
  • But for one afternoon in the spring of 1938, Seabiscuit resurrected the old Tijuana and Agua Caliente.†   (source)
  • She's convinced it's a resurrection.†   (source)
  • He stood near the improvised stage that Carter and The Vigils had erected that afternoon under Archie's direction— an old boxing ring resurrected from the bowels of the bleachers and restored to its former use except for the absence of ropes.†   (source)
  • Resurrection, he thought, comes not by plan or effort, and should the past ever come alive, it will be a great surprise, in which images and ritual memory will pale.†   (source)
  • That's why we're resurrecting Mr. Boogart.†   (source)
  • It used to be that rising from the ash after the depression cleared was like resurrection.†   (source)
  • The resurrection part.†   (source)
  • The word had meant, originally, a Jew educated in Judaism who denied basic tenets of his faith, like the existence of God, the revelation, the resurrection of the dead.†   (source)
  • Until the crane arrived, that is — a colossal arm reached out of the sky to stage a resurrection.†   (source)
  • The music blasted as people spilled from house to carport to backyard, where they had resurrected Mo's old tiki torches and had them glowing in the four corners.†   (source)
  • In 2012, we released Resurrection: Duckmen 16.†   (source)
  • So I did what any resurrected teenage boy desperate to see his soul mate would do.†   (source)
  • He prayed at the East London Mosque and joined the London chapter of Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Sunni Islamic organization that supported the resurrection of the caliphate long before anyone had heard of a group called ISIS.†   (source)
  • Measure hailed him, and Armor looked up with a face like as if he'd seen Jesus resurrected.†   (source)
  • It was a good feeling he had, almost as though he himself had been dead and resurrected.†   (source)
  • You chose to resurrect it, pretending to be its originator.†   (source)
  • At that instant she felt an immediate blessing like showering light—resurrection from the dead.†   (source)
  • ANNIE [CHEERILY]: I think God must owe me a resurrection.†   (source)
  • It did not trouble him that he could not believe, as his mother and perhaps his father did, in the literal resurrection of the dead, the virgin birth, and the rest.†   (source)
  • They woke cold and coated with dew; but the resurrected fire warmed them quickly, and a breakfast of yabbies put them in good heart.†   (source)
  • And then-death, the survival of consciousness, faith in resurrection ...You want to know my opinion as a scientist?†   (source)
  • Bernie was an optimist who needed proof that his philosophy of joy and the resurrection of the spirit was not the delusion of a grinning Pollyanna.†   (source)
  • Christianity has enough real enemies without resurrecting ghosts.†   (source)
  • No, not by moonlight, you fool: by the Resurrection Men.†   (source)
  • He and I will hang out and have like a marathon session of Resurrection or something.†   (source)
  • They might as well have resurrected Stonehenge in downtown London.†   (source)
  • I remembered Van Houten's letter: Writing does not resurrect.†   (source)
  • I'd never taken so long to resurrect after dying in battle.†   (source)
  • It finds all its meaning in the resurrection.†   (source)
  • B-blood of the enemy ....forcibly taken ....you will....resurrect your foe.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno had resurrected the Illuminati as a reminder.†   (source)
  • The re-creation of Old Earth...the resurrection of...how many?†   (source)
  • Then a message appeared in the center of my display: RESURRECTION COMPLETE.†   (source)
  • I clapped him on the back and we headed back to the bedroom to play Resurrection.†   (source)
  • And so the myth of the Resurrection was added onto the gospels.†   (source)
  • Still, there were moments, like I said—resurrection gathering speed.†   (source)
  • It was the sensation of being simultaneously resurrected and buried within the same breath.†   (source)
  • The ancient demons had been resurrected to awaken an indifferent world.†   (source)
  • " 'I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord,' " said the Rev. Dudley Wiggin.†   (source)
  • Language buries, but does not resurrect.†   (source)
  • The Core wrestles with it in the resurrection projects.†   (source)
  • Plus I bet she sucks at Resurrection," which was our favorite video game.†   (source)
  • Radar answered me in the disjointed way of someone playing Resurrection.†   (source)
  • He didn't know what resurrection project the city had been rebuilt for.†   (source)
  • " 'I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord ..." my father began.†   (source)
  • What's the name of the Old Earth poet they resurrected...†   (source)
  • But Easter is the main event; if you don't believe in the resurrection, you're not a believer.†   (source)
  • He was crucified, yet he rose from the dead—he was resurrected.†   (source)
  • Rachel clutched the teddy bear Sarai had resurrected from the attic six months earlier.†   (source)
  • Osiris was resurrected—but only in the Underworld.†   (source)
  • Strangely enough, we at Millennium haven't written a word about her resurrection.†   (source)
  • He dreams of resurrecting the Riders and restoring the race of dragons.†   (source)
  • Nico felt like a hundred skeletal butterflies were resurrecting in his stomach.†   (source)
  • She looks a bit scared, as if I've just resurrected from the dead, and incompletely at that.†   (source)
  • But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies.†   (source)
  • "The resurrection pill," Inigo explained.†   (source)
  • Would you like to resurrect God to take responsibility?†   (source)
  • Larry stood with the SEALs and told them the story of the Resurrection.†   (source)
  • "I wasn't timing my resurrection," I said.†   (source)
  • We proclaim you Death, my mother, and profess your resurrection.†   (source)
  • You cannot by assaulting the wage structure of a small hotel hope to resurrect the dead.†   (source)
  • Felicia thinks of her father, of his death and resurrection, and finds it hard to concentrate.†   (source)
  • The wind coming off Resurrection Bay was just as cold as she remembered.†   (source)
  • In some, Jesus spoke in riddles; in others, the Virgin birth and bodily resurrection were dismissed.†   (source)
  • [Amid the desolation there are some signs of life and resurrection†   (source)
  • Read up on reincarnation, transmigration, hyperspace, the resurrection of the dead and so on.†   (source)
  • Love, Resurrected After more than sixty years.†   (source)
  • Struck dumb by Becks miraculous resurrection, Hutchison crawled outside to answer the call.†   (source)
  • And thus commenced the slow resurrection of a legend.†   (source)
  • You sound so disappointed—what did you think a resurrection pill looked like?†   (source)
  • What one person sees as a medically viable stroke of luck, another might see as a resurrection.†   (source)
  • Booker Washington was resurrected today at a certain eviction in Harlem.†   (source)
  • He told the chaplain the only thing that comforted him was the story of Christ's resurrection.†   (source)
  • Even in midsummer, chunks of ice swirled in Resurrection Bay.†   (source)
  • Every morning it's resurrected alive and well.†   (source)
  • My backpack had apparently not been resurrected with me.†   (source)
  • You don't think it's possible that Mr. Smythe was ....well...resurrected?†   (source)
  • Valhalla could resurrect me with a chocolate bar in my pocket, but not a sword in my hand.†   (source)
  • I, urn—you resurrected with incredible speed.†   (source)
  • "The goats would be resurrected with that damage," he said.†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, I took your advice and resurrected my old rock-hounding habits.†   (source)
  • The second line I have resurrected from the void may be a little too facile, but I have kept it.†   (source)
  • And then when her mind was swimming he said, "For my next trick, I will do the resurrection.†   (source)
  • Time to arise, time for the resurrection.†   (source)
  • ANNIE'S VOICE [WHISPERING]: I think God must owe me a resurrection.†   (source)
  • Here was one of the guardians of old resurrected from the depths of time to guide him, a living symbol, and a testament to the legends he had been raised with.†   (source)
  • Sure, in Valhalla we einherjar are constantly killing each other, and we get resurrected in time for dinner.†   (source)
  • Maten was seventy-three years old, a diabetic, and a deaconess at the Resurrection Mission Baptist Church.†   (source)
  • The Jeffersonian Bible was still in print today and included many of his controversial revisions, among them the removal of the virgin birth and the resurrection.†   (source)
  • As darkness spread that evening, the frogs croaked and a few newly resurrected insects buzzed about campus, and the four of us—Takumi, Lara, the Colonel, and I—walked through the cold gray light of a full moon to the Smoking Hole.†   (source)
  • An unflattering picture wasn't simply taken; it was documented, stored, and resurrected whenever the newspapers needed to criticize me.†   (source)
  • Twenty percent of Kerala's population were Syrian Christians, who believed that they were descendants of the one hundred Brahmins whom St. Thomas the Apostle converted to Christianity when he traveled East after the Resurrection.†   (source)
  • The Crucifixion and Resurrection come very near the spring equinox, the death of winter and beginning of renewed life.†   (source)
  • Now all mankind could hope for the resurrection of the body, for it was to save us that Jesus was crucified.†   (source)
  • No company came to claim it, no businessman promised a resurrection, no one knew what to do with it or what would become of all the people who'd worked there, including my mother, who lost her job at Shoe-Be-Doo-Be—two decades of kneeling and kneading, of sorting boxes and collecting moist foot hosiery, gone without ceremony.†   (source)
  • All the self-consciousness I had intermittently felt over the years, that was sometimes soothed by people's friendliness and sometimes inflamed by slights that I suspected, seemed to resurrect itself whole.†   (source)
  • I bound myself with them so that I might live long enough to witness the birth of the last dragons and to foster the Riders' resurrection from the ruin of our mistakes.†   (source)
  • Aureliano Segundo and Meme took leave of her with mocking farewells and promised her that on the following Saturday they would have a big resurrection party.†   (source)
  • I began to resign myself to my misfortune and to ask no longer that she be resurrected but simply that I would arrive in time to see her one last time before they buried her.†   (source)
  • A WEEK AFTER THE DISCOVERY of the doodled flower, I'd resigned myself to its insignificance—I wasn't Banzan in the meat market after all—and as the maples around campus began to hint of resurrection and the maintenance crew began mowing the grass in the dorm circle again, it seemed to me we had finally lost her.†   (source)
  • To resurrect or revenge.†   (source)
  • When the cold, gray winter sun had set the next night, I was awake, feeling the tingling numbness leave me soon, as it does in winter, feeling the dark, living things that inhabited the coffin scurrying around me, fleeing my resurrection.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of cars lined up on Portrero Grande Drive for miles from the church, where the bodies had lain in state, to the Resurrection Cemetery where most of the barrio dead were buried.†   (source)
  • And we tried to resurrect the conversation that last night as best we could for Takumi, but neither of us remembered it terribly well, partly because the Colonel was drunk and I wasn't paying attention until she brought up Truth or Dare.†   (source)
  • Despite all the craziness I'd gone through today, I had a huge appetite—getting resurrected always did that to me.†   (source)
  • Although the Christian Church believes in the "resurrection of the body and eternal life," it is by God's miracle that we are saved from death and "damnation."†   (source)
  • Sitting at the head of the table, drinking a chicken broth that landed in her stomach like an elixir of resurrection, Meme then saw Fernanda and Amaranta wrapped in an accusatory halo of reality.†   (source)
  • Anyone who takes the trouble to study the gospels can see that the bodily resurrection is a myth that was tacked onto the real story several years after the real histories were written.†   (source)
  • I thought about that for a second; then I tapped the new Command icon that now appeared at the edge of my display and said, "I wish for Aech, Art3mis, and Shoto to be resurrected."†   (source)
  • Baby Kochamma's mother realized that Baby Kochamma, for no reason that she could think of, had assumed that he had meant her—and all those years later at the convent, knowing that all her letters were read by the Mother Superior before they were posted, had resurrected Koh-i-noor to communicate her troubles to her family.†   (source)
  • When Paul had made his speech on the Areopagos, we read in the Acts of the Apostles, some mocked him for what he said about the resurrection from the dead.†   (source)
  • Each morning, Thor resurrected them.†   (source)
  • The crucifixion and the resurrection.†   (source)
  • The early Christians had believed in the resurrection of the flesh, and they'd used the holes to literally "feed the dead" by pouring milk and honey into crypts beneath the floor.†   (source)
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